Five years travelling faster than light in a colony transport goes slower than you think, but the credits are worth it. Captain Ona and her crew are ready to collect a tidy sum for delivering the Flock to Paradise. On the cusp of seeding the colony they encounter a force that will forever change them. This is what happens when science collides with fantasy.

Lawyers in space. An attorney at an off-world deposition faces a strange witness and an even stranger circumstance. But can his senses be trusted this far from Earth as his anti-psychotic field wanes? Don't miss this glimpse of humanity from the eyes of one of its troubled own as he struggles with adversity out among the worlds less traveled. A short story of science fiction and uncertainty.

Mabel Jeffers is sentenced to terraforming a planet with the same Agent Purple that killed her husband. But there are things that are worse than death - things that could drive her over The Edge. Find out what they are – read “The Red Barrens.”
“The Red Barrens is a short speculative fiction, and is also available in the collection “And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get OUT OF MY MIND."

Earth’s reckless use of a nuclear weapon has threatened the lives of those living in Melas, prompting a band of Nomads to seek a new home in the more livable—and more dangerous—Coprates to the east. A young Eternal embarks on a journey to prove himself a hero. A former enemy tries to earn her place in the UN planetary forces. And a terrifying new threat arises from a world that never happened.

Book Three of the Serpent Catch Series.
Tull has caught the sea serpents that he needs to protect the oceans near his home, but he faces dangers greater than any he had ever imagined, for the slavers of Craal descend upon his town and capture everyone that he loves.
As a slave, Tull finds himself a favorite of his masters, destined to be forced into a deadly game in the Dark Arena.

Black Denim Lit is a monthly journal of fiction available on the web and on all eReaders for free through BlackDenimLit.com. This month Christopher T. Garry brings together 9 pages of bold, intriguing new fiction from George Burdick, expanding significantly on his work with a story of desperation a species under the terrible weight of terraforming.

Trapped millennia in the past and gifted with regenerative abilities, King must live out the centuries until he returns to his own time and his family. The Jack Sigler Continuum series tells the events that occurred in his life as a result of the novel Omega, but no prior reading is required to enjoy the Continuum series. Each story will be a standalone adventure, and a great jumping on point.

As the peoples of Mars find themselves caught in an escalating war between an oppressive Earth and an apparently invincible enemy who claims to be from an alternate future, Colonel Ram awakens to find that he has been remade into an immortal superhuman in order to try to save all that he holds dear. But those he would help are terrified of what he’s become. And he’s not the only one of his kind…

The mysterious swordsman Aristide wanders the multiverse with his talking cat Bitsy, both of them in search of the “implied spaces,” the accidents of architecture in an world that is itself artificial and created by a supreme intelligence.
While exploring the pre-technological world of Midgarth, Aristide discovers a plot that threatens to shake the multiverse to its foundations , , ,

When Alisa meets Dr. Corwin Pierce, bizarre things happen on campus & at archaeological sites that link to him. She can only guess who he is, but the truth is more disturbing than his mystery... Unwittingly thrown in the middle of an ancient alien conflict, Alisa navigates terraformed worlds, apocalypse, romance, humanity, & difference. She must choose a side in Orion's Belt - rebels or Watchers